The story
Nearly 2,000 forgotten patients lie in numbered graves, their identities reduced to digits on weathered headstones.
Everything that was here
- 1874–1993
Athens Lunatic AsylumMental Hospital
Nearly 2,000 forgotten patients lie in numbered graves, their identities reduced to digits on weathered headstones.
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Nearby history
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